From the Musee McCord Museum Archives, here are some terrific photographs of individual and team sports from the turn of the (past) century. I love reprinting images of historical athletes as evidence of a time when athletic prowess was conflated with a snappy, well tailored presentation for the camera. Here, in the McCord image set, both male and female athletes wear sporting garb that could easily double as street clothing. I long for the days when heraldic emblems, plus fours, bowler hats, wool knits and striped tunics were de rigeur elements of the the amateur sporting uniform.
